LETTER OF ACCEPTANCES AND REJECTIONS
The following submissions are accepted and registered with the
SCA College of Arms. Listed alphabetically by kingdom they are:
Kingdom of Ansteorra
Lasguaard Aglanar, called Red Fox. Gules, on a fess fracted and enhanced in sinister Or to sinister a fox passant reguardant gules, overall a bordurelet counterchanged.
Note: If Red Fox is a nickname this is acceptable usage, but if
Red Fox is an alternate persona it should not appear in the name.
Personally I don't like the usage of "called" and "known
as" as it clutters the formal name with nicknames, but I'm
not ruling on personal likes and dislikes. I think it would have
been better to have said "called the Red Fox," as that
is more proper usage.
Maria Elayne von Schwangau. Argent, on a fess wavy between
two crosses flory azure a swan naiant argent.
Namron, Barony of. Or, a pile wavy throughout sable, overall a laurel wreath counterchanged.
Note: Piles are not normally throughout, just almost so.
Sharallele Anna MacEideard. (Formerly Sharallele of the
Curly Locks).
Zoren uff Eiren. Badge. Sable, a heart gules voided Or
and fimbriated argent.
Kingdom of Atenveldt
Alys Carvelsdatter. Badge. An angelfish naiant bendwise azure.
Note: Badges need not have fields specified. There are many species
of angelfish but they all have the same basic outline and this
is just a single specified tincture so there is no need for listing
the genus and species.
Bruce the Long Winded. Badge. Sable, a griffin sejant,
sinister foreleg raise, gules, fimbriated Or, maintaining in its
beak a bezant.
Conrad Tolbert Regnault. Azure, a sword proper, balanced
on its point a pair of scales Or.
Dawnbird Tramerlain. Badge. Azure, two piles in point argent,
overall a mourning dove countervolant, wings addorsed, (Zenaidura
macroura carolinensis) proper.
Hillary Stormrider. Badge. Argent, two arrows inverted
in saltire sable, fletched gules, entwined with an ivy vine proper.
(This is your basic ivy. Genus and species is not needed.)
Ioseph of Locksley. Badge. Argent, a sevenheaded
hydra passant vert.
John the Dragon Protector. Argent, an annulet vert, enflamed
without proper.
Kingdom of Atenveldt
Lori of Mare's Tree. Quarterly azure and Or, in bend sinister
a tree in autumn phase and a Bay horse's head couped, both palewise
proper.
Marta as tu MikaMysliwy. Badge. Per pale sable and
azure, a walnut inverted argent.
Mary Margaret of Derby. Badge. A domestic cat counterpassant
or, in sinister base a goblet inverted bendwise sinister argent,
spilling its contents gules.
Melissa merch Rhiannon. Tierced in point argent, sable, and vert, issuant from dexter base a demihorse countercourant sable and in sinister chief a dove rising, wings addorsed, argent.
Note: This was submitted as Melissa ab Rhiannon, but ab means
son of, while merch means daughter of. I have corrected the grammar,
as I will do in all such cases.
Kingdom of Meridies
Almarek of the Dunedain. Ermine, a mullet of four points gyronny argent and purpure.
Note: You can be of the Dunedain, as we allow place names from
Middle Earth. The Dunedain were the descendants from the Numenorians,
and this included much of the human population in Arnor and Gondor.
Ancient and Honourable Company of Watermen. Badge. Argent, a dolphin embowed naiant gules, in base three barrulets wavy and on a chief azure two boat oars in saltire argent.
Note: From now on I am going to list badges of groups that are
not personal households separately, although I still require the
name of a representative.
Cathal MacEdan na Faelad. Gyronny gules and sable, on a chevron throughout Or a cross moline notched of all four of the field.
Note: The cross is also gyronny gules and sable. This is the case
where "of the field" is useful and allowable.
Cedrin Etainnighean. Gules, twelve penguins passant, wings addorsed, proper. (Speniscus sp.)
Note: Spheniscus is the genus. The sp. stands for species, ie
any species. They all look alike to the untrained eye. If you
can easily specify the appearance just by specifying the genus,
use this form.
Chére du Bonvin de Bellevue. Paly Bendy azure and argent, in pale three manticores passant guardant gules, featured proper.
Note: The first name was submitted as Chér. The period
name would never have omitted the gender ending of e. In fact
that's why the accent is there, because of the second e.
Company of Navigators. Badge. Or, an eightspoke ship's
wheel proper charged with an arrow doublepointed fesswise
gules.
Conrad Stronghand. Or, a wolf countersalient sable,
maintain a rose gules, barbed and seeded proper.
Conrad Stronghand. Badge. Or, a wolf's head caboshed sable
maintaining a rose gules, barbed, seeded, slipped, and leaved
proper.
Hunter's Glade, Shire of. Purpure a laurel wreath and on
a chief Or a panther passant sable. (Pantehra pardus)
Jirel ni Cahil. Argent, on a pair of flaunches azure a
talbot counterpassant and a pegasus volant courrant argent,
in base a thistle slipped and leaved proper.
Johannes the Young. Azure, a domestic cat herissoné counterermine upon a trumpet argent.
Note: Herissoné means back arched and spitting, a very
catly position.
Knikolos Major of SalembytheSea. Counterermine,
on a bend gules between a mask of comedy and a hippogrif salient
argent, an artist's brush Or.
Leah of Mercia. Or, a scarpe sable between a tripletowered castle azure and a rose gules, barbed and seeded vert.
Note: This is how it was drawn. If se wants a bend sinister it
will have to be three times wider.
Madéléine la Réveuse. Azure, mullety
Or, a tower argent within a bordurelet Or.
Mathom Trove, Canton of. Chevronelly inverted argent and
azure, on a sun Or between three dragons dormant, those in chief
respectant, sable a laurel wreath vert.
Mathom Trove, Canton of. Badge. Per chevron inverted argent and azure, overall a dragon's gamb erased grasping a sun Or.
Note: This is too wide and short to be a pile.
Mathom Trove, Canton of. Flag. Per saltire argent and azure, issuant in pale two demisuns sable and issuant in fess two demisuns Or.
Note: Flags must obey the rule of tincture. They count as devices.
Meridies, Kingdom of. Badge for Kingdom PoetLaureate.
Vair ancient, a lion's head cabossed Or, orbed and langued gules.
Meridies, Kingdom of. Badge for Local PoetsLaureate. Vair ancient, a hawk's bell Or.
Note: Badges for territorial branches should either obey the rule
of tincture or have no specified field.
Meyer von Koch. Sable, on a heart throughout Or in pale
a reaping hook and a roundel sable.
Michael Dolinar O'Mourne de Starhaven. Azure, on a pall Or a Florida panther's head couped reversed sable between three hearts gules.
Note: This was submitted as D'Starhaven, but one makes the élison
only when one has de followed by a word beginning with a vowel
or an unvoiced 'h.'
Nataal Dywyn. Per pale argent and azure, a cross formy and in chief a chevronell throughout counterchanged.
Note: The name as submitted was Nataal Dyvyn (vónonene
Keletraah). You cannot have parenthesis in a society name. The
language was given as Welsh, but 'v' does not exist in Welsh.
I accordingly changed Dyvyn to Dywyn. The rest will have to be
documented and without parenthesis. The translation was Nataal,
adopted son of Dyvyn (called the "traveler"). I would
like to know how one gets the "adopted son" with no
added words.
Orlando Cavalcanti. Badge for House Maevrorn. Sable, a
greyhound's skull bendwise sinister argent, wearing a fool's cap
of two points particolored gules and Or, belled argent.
Patricia of the Northern Manor. Bendy sinister of four,
gules and Or, a Colorado Blue Spruce tree (Picea pungens kosteriana)
proper.
Rebecca of Twywn, called the Demanding. Badge for For Ty
Mintys y Cath. Vert, a dagger inverted argent, hilted bendy sinister
sable and argent, entwined with two stalks of catnip argent.
Siglinde aus Troso, called the Stupid Peasant. Vert, in saltire two wooden spoons proper, on a chief embattled azure, fimbriated, a dinner plate Or.
Note: This was submitted as Siglinde von Troso, etc. The use of
von indicates nobility. If you want to be of a place but not noble
the word is aus. Since she has an illiterate peasant persona I
have used aus. If she wants to use von she will have to drop the
stupid peasant nickname.
Siobhan ni Filidheacht. Ermine, fretty Or, on a chief azure
three beehives Or.
Tanya of the Oak. Argent, a sprouting acorn slipped and
singly leaved proper within a bordure gules.
Thomas Heath. Argent, on a heart gules a unicorn passant
reguardant argent.
Kingdom of the West
Aelfwynn Gyrthesdohtor. Badge. A mullet of nine points voided and interlaced within and conjoined to an annulet argent.
Note: Only pentagrams (five pointed interlaced mullets) are forbidden.
Branwen of Cherry Bay. Gules, a boar's tooth necklace in
orle throughout argent.
Dyon de Martel. Per bend sinister sable and Or, a scarpe
counterchanged, in canton a salamander statant reguardant gules
enflamed Or.
Nikolaj Zrogowacialy. Badge. A flat spiral horn of three turns reversed.
Note: Badges need not have any tinctures specified. This is from
his arms.
Raoul the Urbane. Per bend sinister purpure and azure, a bend sinister counterchanged, upon the lines of division three German flutes bendwise sinister throughout argent, each pierced of seven holes sable.
Note: This is an imaginative way of fimbriating, where the fimbriations
mean something.
Valkyrie Drömmefjell. Gules, a viking helm reversed Or, winged argent.
Note: Her mundane first name is Valkyrie, so she can use it, with
Drömmfjell to difference it from one of the valkyries. A
person can always use their first name, so long as they difference
it properly. Nobody else can use Valkyrie as a name unless they
also have it as their first name. This is a specific exception
to the normal rules, granted only to her.
William of Hoghton. Badge for Hoghton Towers. Per pale sable and gules, a tower Or and thirteen bumblebees migrant bendwise sinister inverted proper. (Bombida sp.)
Note: By default the tower is on the sable, and the bees are 2,
3, 3, 3, 2, on the gules.
REJECTED SUBMISSIONS BY KINGDOM
Kingdom of Ansteorra
Bryn Gwlad, Barony of.
The arms and the badge for the Order of the Halberd are withdrawn
in accordance with the request of the Lady Seanna de Fraser, Acting
Seneschal to Bryn Gwlad.
Kingdom of Atenveldt
None (congratulations!)
Kingdom of Meridies
Alisoun MacCoul of Elphane.
You have listed Or, a cracked Greek "redfigured"
amphora proper. What you have shown is not an amphora as I know
them which always came to a point at the bottom. Since you obviously
photocopied the vase from some book, I would like to see a copy
of the whole page to see if they really did call it an amphora.
I also do not like the idea of directly copying an existing vase.
Furthermore the detailed figures and ornamentation are so ornate
that it would next to impossible for anyone other than a superb
artist to actually draw your device correctly, even working with
a photocopy of your device. You might want to have pity on the
poor scribe who some day will have to do a scroll for you with
this on it. I would prefer to have a blazonable collection of
figures on the vase in a simpler pattern. What you have is really
a blackfigured vase, where the black outer glaze has been
scrapped off to show the red under glaze beneath. The figures
themselves are black.
Culcleth Ohoni Ceatta y Masnachwr. Azure, a catamount passant guardant argent between three estoiles Or, all within a bordurelet sable.
For the last time, bordures in the SCA are on the field and do
have to obey the rule of tincture! This is color on color.
Daemon Greysteel. Argent, issuant from dexter chief a leopard's head and dexter foreleg sable, armed and orbed argent, on a sinister quarter gules a phoenix enflamed Or.
First of all, this is an augmentation of the Ruger trademark.
You cannot have charged cantons or quarters, either dexter or
sinister, with straight lines of division. Change the phoenix
to the standard heraldic phoenix to avoid conflict with Ruger
and use some other line, such as wavy or invected for the quarter.
The claws and teeth of the leopard should be colored to show up,
such as gules or azure. You cannot put argent claws on an argent
field and expect to see them. What species of leopard is that?
We have to differentiate between the heraldic leopard and natural
leopards. If you just want a basic natural leopard, call it a
natural leopard in the blazon.
Domenica Farnese. Gyronny vert and azure, a mullet of six points within eight of the same in mascle argent.
The device is acceptable, but Farnese is the Ducal House of Parma.
You will need to pick a different surname which is not a royal
or high noble house.
Fritz Wilhelm Hammer. Sable, gurges Or, a mallet gules.
Unfortunately this is color on color, since the field is sable,
and the gurges is a charge. This is because you have drawn the
gurges so that all three corners of the escutcheon are sable.
If you draw it so that the base point is Or then it will not be
possible to say which is the field and which is the spiral. Then
you have a divided field gurges sable and Or, and you would no
longer have color on color. This is similar to the problem of
barry of an odd number. I have called the charge a mallet, because
that is what it really is. When you say a hammer in heraldry most
think of a warhammer or Thor's hammer. If you want the canting
term redraw the mallet to be like a Thor's hammer.
Godelind of Windemere. What you seem to have is Gules, a sixbladed paddle wheel shown in perspective throughout argent, coiled thereon a two headed serpent, its tail about the dexter fess blade, its upper head above the sinister chief blade, its lower head below the sinister base blade, sable.
First of all perspective is out of period. Second of all that
is not a standard heraldic position for the serpent. It is too
complicated a position to allow. Thirdly, the sable snake is mostly
on the gules field, which is color on color. I suggest you start
over, or considerably simplify.
Holtmar of Stonedown. Per pale Or and gules, three eagles counterchanged.
The eagles are displayed by default. The counterchange of this
conflicts with several families in Papworth who have Per pale,
gules and argent, three eagles counterchanged. There is only one
point of difference. I suggest you turn the heads to sinister,
to have the eagles displayed reguardant, or some other change.
Pellinor auf der Sturm. Counterermine, a chief arched embattled Or, issuant from the dextermost battlement of the chief a pile bendwise inverted gules, and issuant from the sinistermost battlement of the chief a pile bendwise sinister inverted azure, both conjoined in point to a plate.
This is not heraldry. It looks like the curtain is rising and
the two spotlights are waiting for Mickey Mouse to come out and
start the show. You have gules and azure on counterermine,
which is a bad idea in the first place. I know you like theatre,
but you can't put the stage on your shield. This sort of thing
is completely out of period. I suggest replacing the spotlights
with a mask of comedy, which will properly suggest theatres.
Robert Hightower. Sable, a bend sinister argent, overall a tower checky argent and vert, with two windows sable.
The name conflicts with Randall of Hightower, the first Principal
Herald in the Society and formerly Clarion King of Arms. You would
have to get Lord Randall's permission to have such a similar name.
Hightower was the name of his household. What you have drawn is
not what you have blazoned. The tower is not a proper checky,
and the top of it is argent, not checky. You can get your windows
by saying the tower is charged in bend sinister with two billets
palewise sable. You should redraw it with the whole tower properly
checky.
South Keep, Shire of. You have Azure, a tower issuant from a base embattled Or, in canton the Southern Cross constellation argent and in base a laurel wreath proper.
You cannot have the southern cross, as constellations are out of period for use as charges. The Southern Cross is not visible from the Northern hemisphere, and so is not appropriated for a Florida branch, or for any European area. I suggest if you really want to refer to the Southern Cross that you have a cross ending in four mullets of eight points argent in canton. You will know what it stands for, without it being a blatant landscape.
Troll Fen, Shire of. Sable, issuant from and fracting the first of three barcotices wavy coupe debased azure, fimbriated Or, a cypress tree and two stumps blasted trailing moss argent, environed of a laurel wreath issuant from the upper barcoticed vert, fimbriated Or.
This is blatant fimbriation to foil the rule of tincture. The
device is too busy. You cannot have barcotices like that.
I suggest the following: Sable, issuant from a base barry wavy
argent and azure a cypress tree blasted trailing moss from its
branches argent, within a laurel wreath issuant from the base
Or. Then there is no fimbriation at all, it still looks like a
swamp, and it's easy to blazon.
Vanya Popovitch. Sable, a cock passant reguardant Or.
This conflicts with Chianti: Sable, a fighting cock Or. The only
difference is position. (Rietstaap). Your badge: Per pale sable
and argent, a cock passant reguardant Or and a poppy gules seeded
Or is acceptable, but I will hold off registering it so you can
change it to match whatever charge you choose for the device to
avoid the conflict.
The following were passed long ago but were left off the last
Ordinary and should be reentered into the current Ordinary:
Margaret of Griffin Tower. Ermine, a demigriffin
segreant gules issuant from a tower Or, masoned sable.
Margarethe the Dog. Tierced en pointe vert, azure, and
sable, a horse's head couped Or.
Morgan of Landour. Purpure, a pale dancetty argent, voided
sable.
(Notice how short these old blazons are!)
This concludes this month's letter of acceptances and rejections.
All rejections do have the right of appeal, so long as documentation
accompanies the appeal. Pray believe, my Lords and Ladies, that
I remain
Your Servant,
Wilhelm von Schlüssel